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As someone who has been planning on entering next years race since late 2015...
Fastest is a hard term to define. Over that kind of distance I find comfort will come in to play (as many current riders are discovering).
Current plans are for a TI frame, carbon fork plus wide tires/wheels. Relatively relaxed geo but with TT bars.
We (Talbot) can make an entire bike that's focused entirely on the challenge - so the riders morphology, the kit etc, I'd love to work with a luggage designer from a clean sheet starting point to look at how we could design bike, luggage, electronics, hydration and so forth as a complete system that majored on comfort at (long distance) pace alongside aerodynamics. It's a fascinating challenge when you consider all the various parts that go into it.
Dammit-
If you need a guineapig for a project like that, I'm available.
Budget might be an issue, however ;0
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Would you consider doing the same with a mountain bike frame for the Tour Divide?
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We (Talbot) can make an entire bike that's focused entirely on the challenge - so the riders morphology, the kit etc, I'd love to work with a luggage designer from a clean sheet starting point to look at how we could design bike, luggage, electronics, hydration and so forth as a complete system that majored on comfort at (long distance) pace alongside aerodynamics. It's a fascinating challenge when you consider all the various parts that go into it.
This is what I want.... I'm thinking of giving this a go in 2018 - spending next year building up with some 200 / 300 / 500 / 1000 mile multi day rides and want to be able to have system in place so I don't have a lot of the last minute equipment panics some of the others have.....
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Sounds like a similar concept to the Rob English/BRP Tour Divide bike... Would be interesting to see how it turns out!
gillies
Spares
TheOmnisis
atk
As someone who has been planning on entering next years race since late 2015...
Fastest is a hard term to define. Over that kind of distance I find comfort will come in to play (as many current riders are discovering).
Current plans are for a TI frame, carbon fork plus wide tires/wheels. Relatively relaxed geo but with TT bars.